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Exercise v. Anger
Read more: Exercise v. AngerNYT: Can Exercise Moderate Anger? For years, researchers have known that exercise can affect certain moods. Running, bike riding and other exercise programs have repeatedly been found to combat clinical depression. Similarly, a study from Germany published in April found that light-duty activity like walking or gardening made participants “happy,” in the estimation of the…
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Anxiety Treatment: Therapy
Read more: Anxiety Treatment: TherapyAnd here’s “Anxiety Treatment – Therapy”:
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Generation X, Y, Z
Read more: Generation X, Y, ZA look at difficulties assessing personality differences between generations. Generation Y’s collective personality, if such a thing exists, is not likely to be much different from other generations’. Still, small differences may matter, and there is some agreement in findings from psychologists on both sides of this debate. In his own research, Dr. Terracciano has found…
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But Will It Make You Happy?
Read more: But Will It Make You Happy?Stuff v. Happiness in the NYT: A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people. Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.” So…
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Modern Love
Read more: Modern LoveDiane Johnson looks dating and marriage in a NYRB review. It used to be that on a date, the boy would pay for a Pepsi and the movie; that was it. Lori Gottlieb, in Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, estimates the cost to today’s woman of four months of dating, counting…